"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3)

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Wordle 1,289 4/6* 12/29/2024

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DECRY → OK. R & E gone, so what’s our next best first guess second?
LOANS → Hit on both vowels. Probably don’t need to check U & I. It took me a long time to think of an acceptable word here, I’m surprised I didn’t see TABOO since I had T on the brain, also AFOOT would have been better than what I ended up trying
AFOAM → But luckily, that had an M, that I decided to double up on to try to place as I had no greens up to this point, which led me to
MAMBO
MATZO was also a possibility - maybe I’d have seen that if it was springtime. Scoredle also finishes in four, oddly enough with no yellows - almost the exact opposite of my “no greens before the end” approach.

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Wordle 1,289 4/6

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CRANE
ABOUT
LABOR
MAMBO

Yesterday is the second time in a week that I forgot to do the Wordle, so my streak has reset to “one” twice now.

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Wordle 1,289 6/6

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YEAST (Just the A this time. Vowel hunt.)
HAIKU (All I did was place the A. Try my last vowel.)
VAPOR. (Found it. And eliminated a WoFcon. Let’s assume the O is at the end.)
MACHO (Ooh, got a placed M! MANGO or MAMBO. Try the one with a WoFcon.)
MANGO (Not the one. Double bogey.)
MAMBO (Yuck.)

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Wordle 1,289 4/6

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HEART
BASIN
CABAL
MAMBO

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Wordle 1,289 5/6

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IDEAL
ROAST
WAGON
MACHO
MAMBO

Progress on every guess, which made this an interesting solve, at least.
@Smapti, looks like a bunch of us pulled a Lou Bega on this one.

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Wordle 1,289 4/6

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PLANT
RACES
BAGGY
MAMBO

And again the answer is not baggy. That’s at least half a dozen times it could have been yet still has not. One of these days I will get my baggy 3!

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Wordle 1,290 3/6

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SLATE
STAGE
STARE

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Wordle 1,290 1/6*

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It finally happened.
1-81-267-251-116-47
The question now is, do I change my opening gambit?

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Nice work, @Cugel! I had to settle for a mere 2:

Wordle 1,290 2/6

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PLANT
STARE

530

Me too.
Wordle 1,290 1/6*

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although My overall stats aren’t as good as yours
1-21-151-195-75-13

Its a good first word

I’m better at connections (70% perfect :gloat:)

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Wordle 1,290 3/6

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RATIO
TRACE
STARE

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Wordle 1,290 4/6

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TRANS
START
STARK
STARE

This one would’ve been a 3 if I’d stuck with TRANS/LOUIE, but after TRANS did so well I decided to try for a 2 and didn’t quite make it.

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Wordle 1290 3/6

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SLANT
SPATE
STARE

Could’ve also been STAVE.

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Wordle 1,290 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,290 4/6

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YEAST (Probably SxAxE)
SPATE (Okay, STAxE. Not many unused ones.)
STAVE (Noooo!)
STARE (That took longer than it should have.)

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Wordle 1,290 1/6 — 2024-12-30
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STARE — it’s time to buy a lotto ticket

537

Wordle 1,290 2/6*

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Ought
Stare

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Wordle 1,290 2/6*

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LEAST
STARE

Much better than my 5 yesterday!

Congrats on the ones! My day will come.

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Wordle 1,290 2/6

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HEART
STARE

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Wordle 1,290 3/6* 12/30/2024

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MAMBO → I was hoping for at least one B or M. Oh well. Time for a good first guess second
LEAST → And… wow. Looking like STA?E, could be second T, R, V, (not L), K, G… a potentially fatal trap. Oh well, into the breach we go…
STARE

I’m not sure how much a used word list might have helped, but I got really lucky. Scoredle falls into a different trap with the second letter, and has a 4/3 (four words to find in three guesses), ending in a bogey. I figured there would be plenty of twos and the occasional ace today; was not disappointed.